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Embassy Apartment


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celede

Resident 2013

5/12/2013

I subletted an apartment here for 5 months (January - May) while in between leases. Never again. Pros: - Great location. - It's cheap, though you get what you pay for - my studio was probably about 100 sq ft. Cons: - The water was terrible. Pressure in the showers were spotty - I get it, it was an old building, but the apartment I rented before was built in 1785 and I never had issues like these. Management would also go through phases of "working on the pipes", resulting in a notice that hot water would not be available on a given day for a few hours - which I could deal with if that was really what happened. Instead, they would work on it intermittently over several days, returning hot water and then suddenly cutting it again. At one point it was shut off while I was in the middle of a shower - well outside the posted times they warned me of. - The heat went out on my floor during subzero weather. Lovely. - Elevators are incredibly slow. - Renovations mean you get to wake up to construction in the hallways in the early hours of the morning, weekends AND weekdays. Oh right, and the walls are paper thin. - Towards the end of my lease they showed my apartment constantly - probably daily. This is an inconvenience, sure, but it was intolerable because many times they didn't even give me 24 hours notice - I'd come home at 1 AM on a Friday evening to no notice, then be interrupted at 10 AM by some woman trying to show my apartment. - MICE. So many. I can only imagine the pain of dealing with deposits and etc. I'm so grateful that I was only a subletter. The previous reviewer has commented that these are all problems common to big city rentals. This is not true. I've lived in Philadelphia for several years and in fact have never had problems like these (not even in a 200 year old building).

    Review 5 out of 30

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